Adjacent to the western district of the Settlement was certain! Chinese territory into which the Settlement authorities had penetrated owing to the expansion of the population, On these outside roads many foreigners lived, and their houses, after being evacuated during the fighting, came within" the Japanese area of occupation, As the Japanese are also par ners in the government of the Settlement the transfer of authority from the Chinese to the Japanese army came to be a matter of considerable importance and concern.
The victors claimed the rights previously vested in Chinese sover-eighty. Thus in a great measure foreigners became sub-tenants, The French Concession and the Settlement were, as it were, interned by Japanese armed might, The French administration, directly under French Consular control, although otherwise standing in the same relation to Chinese sovereignty as the Settlement, could not be so. specifically subject to Japanese orders.
"The combination of circumstances which gave the Japanese a share in the Settlement's government and, by the fortune of war, possession of territory nominally belonging to the Settlement made the position of the Shanghai Municipal Council, for long the constitutional authority of the International Settlement, exceedingly delicate, It could not oppose the decision of the Japanese! to stage their victory march ' through the Settlement, for the Japanese shared with British, Americans and Italians the right to parade their troops in the Settlement's streets. It endeavoured to persuade the Japanese that such a proceeding was dangerously provocative, Tis views were shared by the Japanese Consular officials, by old Japanese residents and, it is even Whispered, by General Matsui himself, but the exuberance of the younger. Japanese officers insisted.
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